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Mar 31, 2010

More Genealogical Kindness

I have just been blessed with yet another "Random Act of Genealogical Kindness''...

I am completely beside myself at the moment. I sent an email to Cathy today because I remembered that she mentioned seeing my Aunt's engagement notice in a scrapbook at the Thorold Historical Society. I was wondering how I could see it too. I just received this in my inbox. Miss Rita Manley is my dearly missed Aunt Deedee and my Godmother. I've never seen this before. I never knew John because he died just before I was born but as the story goes, there was never two people more in love...

You might recall Cathy is the lady who was the friend of my cousin Jinny that I wrote about here.

Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands among the rest;Neglected and alone.The name and date are chiseled outOn polished, marble stone.It reaches out to all who careIt is too late to mourn.You did not know that I existYou died and I was born.Yet each of us are cells of youIn flesh, in blood, in bone.Our blood contracts and beats a pulseEntirely not our own.Dear Ancestor, the place you filledOne hundred years agoSpreads out among the ones you leftWho would have loved you so.I wonder how you lived and loved,I wonder if you knewThat someday I would find this spot,And come to visit you.~ Author Unknown ~